The Asbury hotel ramps up the volume on a once sleepy New Jersey beach town On a bright summer Sunday morning, cars hum along Asbury Avenue towards the beach. Past the strip malls and quaint turn-of-the-century houses, the landscape opens up to meet the Atlantic Ocean. Along the boardwalk, a few buildings hark back to …

naked Group, which got its start in resorts, brings its trademark co-working concept to Hong Kong with naked Hub. Perspective catches up with its co-founder and chief design officer, Delphine Yip-Horsfield Don’t worry: you can keep your clothes on – Shanghai-based naked Group just wants you to shed all your previous notions of co-working spaces …

As London’s Victoria and Albert Museum unveils its new Exhibition Road Quarter, the South Kensington institution is set to revitalise its original mission as a “schoolroom for everyone” How do you go about making sure a museum founded in 1852 remains relevant today? That was the question posed by the Victoria and Albert Museum to the RIBA …

Alan Chan, one of the city’s most renowned designers, talks to Perspective about forging a Hong Kong design identity, East-West directions and the cultural connections of tea Born and raised in Hong Kong, Alan Chan is one of the city’s best-loved creatives. In his almost 50 years working as a designer and brand consultant he has seen …

Style is married with minimalism in the Studio Margeza Apartment in Budapest overlooking the Danube Geza Hamori and Margit Szinger are passionate about the business of renovation. That’s why their company, Margeza, purchases old apartments, redesigns them, and puts them back on the market. Hamori, from Belgium, is a former librarian for the European Court of …

Via architects has transformed Hong Kong art space ArtisTree into a dynamic venue that resourcefully marries creative architecture and support for the arts with business realities and technological necessity In a city better known as a financial hub than a centre of culture, it’s not every day a Hong Kong architectural firm gets the opportunity …

Lord Kenilworth – Raddle Siddeley as he is professionally known – talks about the garden as an extension of the living room, the importance of personality and why landscapes should look great naked! Growing up in 1960s London it was inevitable that Randle Siddeley would work in the world of design. His father was the …

From the road, the boxy shape of House W offers no clue to its spacious, airy interiors, the result of a carefully considered design crafted by Beijing-based Atelier About Architecture Born in China and educated in Australia, Wang Ni and Zhang Dawei, the founders of Atelier About Architecture (AAA), have a considerable international footprint, despite …

The Paris architectural map, studded with inspiring edifices of poignant historical significance conjoined with contemporary progressivity, make it a perfect blueprint for a study of the evolution of building design, renovation and repurpose Paris. The City of Light. The City of Love. The French capital is one of the world’s most visited destinations year after …

Gray Puksand’s Field House in Melbourne deconstructs the concept of space to optimise inside-outside movement and style in the best traditions of Australian living For architects, the use of space is increasingly a conundrum in urban environments where it has become a premium commodity. As many dwellings inevitably come closer together, how can modern designers work with …